POLB90H3 Lecture 5: lecture 5 notes
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Traditional society: poor subsistence life without hope of accumulation of income or wealth, no attempt to better one"s lot. Modern society: forward looking, committed to growth and improvement, based on competition and laws of the marketplace. Reject traditional values in favor of western values. Based on unlimited growth, no consideration of environmental limits. No moral dilemma, uni directional, one size fits all, naively optimistic. Dependency theory: assumptions, underdevelopment is a process, not a condition, third world poverty is a product of first world prosperity, international and historical factors are key to understanding underdevelopment, the world capitalist system undermines third world development. Full scale socialist revolution in the south/overthrow capitalism. International and historical injustice shifts the blame. Diminishes the agency of actors in the global south. Does attribute agency to actors in the global south. Q: can development theories provide us with useful roadmap for development in the global south or are they part of the problem.
